CONTROL SEMINAR SERIES (WINTER 2003)
THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
with generous support from
Ford Motor Company, General Motors, and Whirlpool Corporation

Fridays 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. 1500 EECS Building


January 10

Professors Brent Gillespie, Anna Stefanopoulou, Huei Peng, ME Dept., University of Michigan, Experiments in Control Education – A Few Examples from ME Courses. 

 (Abstract)


January 17

Professor Dawn Tilbury, ME Dept., University of Michigan, Reconfigurable Logic Control for High volume Manufacturing Systems.

 (Abstract)


January 24

Professor Murti Salapaka, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University, Systems Theory and Micro-cantilever based Devices.

 (Abstract)


January 31

Professor Dan Davison, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Automating Radiotherapy Cancer Treatment:  A Preliminary Study Using Multirate Observer-Based control.  

 (Abstract)


February 7

Dr. Michael Tiller, Ford Research Laboratory, Ford Motor Company, Plant Modeling in an Industrial Setting. 

 (Abstract)


February 14

Professor Edward J. Davison, University of Toronto,  Systems Control Group, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Optimal Transient Response Shaping for the Discrete-Time Servomechanism Problem.

 (Abstract)


February 21

NO SEMINAR – SPRING BREAK STARTS


February 29

NO SEMINAR – SPRING BREAK ENDS


MARCH 7

Professor Stephen Boyd,  Stanford University, Advances in Convex Optimization:  Interior-point Methods, cone Programming, and Applications.

 (Abstract)


March 14

Professor Petar V. Kokotovic, University of California - Santa Barbara, Living with Unstable Zero Dynamics – The Story of Feedback Limitations.

 (Abstract)


March 21

Professor Christoforos Hadjicostis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois - Urbana, Coding Approaches to Fault Tolerance in Dynamic Systems.

 (Abstract)


March 28

Professor Nikolaos Katopodes, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, Adaptive Control of Flow and Maws Transport by Multi-Sensor Arrays.

 (Abstract)


April 4

Professor Kevin Lynch, Northwestern University, Motion Planning for Underactuated Mechanical Systems.

 (Abstract)


April 11

Dr. Ilya Kolmanovsky, Ford Motor Company, Issues and Opportunities in Control of Automotive Powertrain Systems.

 (Abstract)


For more information please contact:

Professor Anna Stefanopoulou

email: annastef@umich.edu

and

Professor Brent Gillespie

email: brentg@umich.edu


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